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On 20 January 1903, shortly after completing his future
bestseller The Call of the Wild (1903), the
twenty-seven-year-old Jack London sent a synopsis of his next novel
to his publisher in America, George P. Brett of Macmillan’s:

I have made up my mind that it shall be a sea story. .
. . which shall have adventure, storm, struggle, tragedy, and love.
The love-element will run throughout, as the man & woman will
occupy the center of the stage pretty much of all the time. Also,
it will end happily. . . . My idea is to take a cultured, refined,
super-civilized man and woman, (whom the subtleties of artificial,
civilized life have blinded to the real facts of life), and throw
them into a primitive sea-…

Citation:
Fachard, Alexandre. "The Sea-Wolf". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 May 2017
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7667, accessed 18 August 2017.]

7667The Sea-Wolf3Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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